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Date: 1743
"This young Lady, amongst many other good Ingredients, had three very predominant Passions, to wit, Vanity, Wantonness, and Avarice."
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Date: 1743
"As his most powerful and predominant Passion was Ambition, so Nature had with consummate Propriety, adapted all his Faculties to the attaining those glorious Ends, to which this Passion directed him."
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Date: 1743
"Upon this, my Son Swane invaded the Coasts with several Ships, and committed many outragious Cruelties; which, indeed, did his business, as they served me to apply to the Fear of this King, which I had long since discovered to be his predominant Passion."
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Date: 1743
"He was very bad at acting any Part that was not quite sincere; but the present Confusion of her Mind was so great, she could not distinguish very clearly; and not knowing he was acquainted with what had passed between her and her Confidant, his Behaviour threw her into a great Consternation, and...
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Date: 1743
"Reason, however we flatter ourselves, hath not such despotic Empire in our Minds, that it can, with imperial Voice, hush all our Sorrow in a Moment"
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Date: 1743
Reason "doth not foolishly say to us, be not glad, orbe not sorry, which would be as vain and idle, as to bid the purling River cease to run, or the raging Wind to blow"
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Date: 1743
Sleep may torment one's imagination "with Fantoms too dreadful to be described"
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Date: 1743
It may cost one "more struggling than may easily be believed, utterly to conquer his Reluctance, and to banish away every Degree of Humanity from his Mind"
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Date: 1743
One's conqueror may be "one of those over whom Passion hath a limited Jurisdiction"
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Date: 1743
Rage at the Disappointment of Love and Pride, and at the finding a Passion fixed in my Breast one knows not how to conquer may break "out into that inconsistent Behaviour, which must always be the Consequence of violent Passions"
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